Mac Forum / Applications / Word / August 2006

Greetings

I have:

iMac G5

Mac OS X10.4.7

Word 11.2

I often use the Forms facility - in tables.

My frustration that sometimes after I have filled in a form - I find a
(usually minor) error in the form - e.g. recently I found that in the form
text a heading was marked "keep with next" - but once the form was filled in
- with multiple lines in some fields this led to ridiculous pagination.

The frustration is that I cannot find a way to unprotect the form, fix the
minor error, then protect the form again without losing everything (and it
can be quite a bit!) that has been entered in the fields.

My first thought was-  why not just cut and paste the filled in fields to a
new version of the form - (they are usually down one column of a table) -
but the contents of the fields won't cut and paste.

So - to restate the original frustration -

How can I unprotect then protect a filled in form WITHOUT using the contents
of all the fields?

Looking forward to a helpful response.

Regards